The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
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                                  That he drank/ he speketh in his nose
                                
                                  He snuffeth fast/ and eke he hath the pose
                                
                                  He hath also to do more than ynough [Eg. 2726 folio 237a] 
                                
                                  To kepe hym / in his sadle out of þe slough
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                                  And yf he fall from his caple eft sone
                                
                                  Than shull we all han ynough to done
                                
                                  In lyftyng vp / his hevy drunken cors /
                                
                                  Tell on thy tale / of hym make I no fors
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                                  But yitte Maunciple / in feith þou art to nyce
                                
                                  Thus openly / to repreve hym / of his vyce
                                
                                  Another day / he woll perauenture
                                
                                  Reclayme the / and bryng þe to lure
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                                  I mene / he speke woll / of smale thynges/
                                
                                  And for to pynchen / at thy rekenynges
                                
                                  That were nat honest / yf it cam to preef
                                
                                  koth þe Maunciple / þat were a grete myschief
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                                  So myght he lyghtly / bryng me in þe snare
                                
                                  Yitte hade me leuer / pay for þe mare
                                
                                  which þat he rytte on / þan he shold with me stryue
                                
                                  I woll nat wratth hym / as mot I thryue
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                                  That / þat I spake / I seid it in my bourde
                                
                                  And wete ye what/ I have here in my gourde
                                
                                  A draught of wyn / it is / of a ripe grape
                                
                                  And right anoon / ye shull se a gode iape
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                                  This Coke shall drynk/ þere-of yf I may
                                
                                  vp peyne of deth / he woll nat sey me nay
                                
                                  And certenly to tell as it was
                                
                                  Of this vessell / þe Cooke / drank fast allas
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                                  what nedeth it / he drank ynough byforn
                                
                                  And whan he hade pouped / in his horn
                                
                                  To the Maunciple / he toke þe gourde agayn
                                
                                  And of that draught / þe Cook was wonder fayn
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                                  And thanked hym / in soch wise as he coude
                                
                                  Than gan our hoost / to laugh wonder loude
                                
                                  And seid I se wele / it is necessarie
                                
                                  Where þat we goo / gode drynk with vs to carie

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Title: The Cambridge ms. Dd. 4. 24. of Chaucer's Canterbury tales, completed by the Egerton ms. 2726 (the Haistwell ms) Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 573
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,; 1902.

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